thank you and some questions...

[simoncn]

(27-01-2012 04:30)psme Wrote:  Great to see a UPnP AV server oriented for music playback!

I read all the doc and have a rough idea of the whole thing. Just some comment...

Currently I'm using foobar2000 upnp server. Since foobar supports album art in multiple filenames, I have around 2/3 album art named cover.jpg and 1/3 in folder.jpg (and very few in embedded cover art). It should be great if minimserver can use cover.jpg too.

I could add that. My only concern is how many other naming conventions for this file might be out there. I saw a post on another forum saying that J River Media Center will use any .jpg file as the cover art, as long as it is the only .jpg file in the folder. This seems like a more attractive solution, as it doesn't require hard-coding a list of possible filenames. Do your folders have a single .jpg file named cover.jpg?

Quote:The idea of user customized tag name is great. In my setup, most of the album are of course from CD, and there are some from SACD, DVD-Audio, Studio Master and even some Vinyl rip. Hence I create a tag name "AUDIOFORMAT", with the string of "Super Audio CD", "DVD Audio", "Studio Master", "USB Audio" (there is an album disturbed on USB flashdrive! quality is 48k/24bit I think), "Vinyl rip" etc. And I modified foobar upnp server browser tree xml to add a tree with this "AUDIOFORMAT" tag. I guess that will work in minimServer too!

Yes, that would work in MinimServer. The only thing you'd need to do is set the userTags property to include the AudioFormat tag. I've put this in mixed case because the values in userTags are the values that are shown when the user is browsing. When reading tags from audio files, the upper-case form (e.g., AUDIOFORMAT) will be used.

Quote:IMO, I'm thinking my ideal music playback system... I want a music server which can read any user defined tag, which minimServer already does. Then a controller will list all the tag for the user to browse and search. This new music server may solve half of the problem...

Actually, it will solve all of the problem, because the controller just displays what the server sends it. So if you add a new tag to MinimServer and to your audio files, all controllers will display the new tag without any change needed at the controller end.

Quote:Random ranting, a artist usually has multiple albums, when browsing by artist, I want the list of album to order in release date (sort by the "YEAR" tag), from the newest album to the oldest. But that is impossible, all the controller can do is simply list the list by the server, which is in album name order! For this annoying issue, I spent a few days studying foobar internal expression syntax and appended the release date in front of the album name (when browsing under "Artist" tree). So I can finally have albums under artist listed in release date, BUT, only in ascending order! Listing in descending order is still not possible...

I've already had another request on the Linn forum for this. I'm interested in adding support for this, but in a more general fashion so that people can apply a custom sort order to any sorted list. I'll start thinking about the best way to provide this capability.

Thanks for all the comments and questions!